Both acts contributed immeasurably to rock's continued ascendancy in the '60s, and both offered tragic contributions to the "27 Club" of musicians who've passed at that unreasonably young age, but they also worked in distinctly different styles -- Hendrix's guitar prowess influenced untold legions of younger players, while Doors frontman Jim Morrison helped set a template for the bad-boy mystique favored by so many of his successors.

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